Curripaco
Curripaco is an Arawakan language spoken in Brazil, Colombia, and Venezuela, by about 4,000 people. Glottolog rates it threatened.
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Kurripako (Curripaco, Curripako, Ipeka-Tapuia-Curripako) is an Arawakan language principally of Colombia and Venezuela. There are also a thousand speakers in Brazil.
Kurripako forms a dialect continuum with Baniwa, and Aikhenvald (1999) considers them to be dialects. (Kaufman (1994) calls Baniwa–Curripako "Karu".)
From Wikipedia · Kurripako language · CC BY-SA 4.0
Words in Curripaco
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| woman | iinaro | |
| person | inaiki* | |
| name | pepitana* | |
| eye | ti* | |
| ear | eni* | |
| nose | tako* | |
| tooth | eca* | |
| tongue | enene* | |
| hand | kapi* | |
| blood | irana* | |
| bone | api* | |
| skin | iya* | |
| knee | osipada* | |
| breast | ruini* | |
| liver | copana* | |
| water | uuni | |
| fire | tiye* | |
| sun | heri* | |
| star | hiwisida* | |
| stone | hipada* | |
| mountain | hipana* | |
| tree | haiko* | |
| leaf | panape* | |
| night | depi* | |
| dog | cino* | |
| fish | kupe* | |
| louse | toida* | |
| one | pada* | |
| two | yamada* | |
| I | noa* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
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Vocabulary
- Baniwa do IcanaArawakan52% alike
- TarianaArawakan30% alike
- PiapocoArawakan27% alike
- Maipure-AvaneArawakan19% alike
- ResígaroArawakan18% alike
- BaréArawakan18% alike
Grammar
- NomatsiguengaArawakan85% alike
- IgnacianoArawakan85% alike
- AsháninkaArawakan84% alike
- IñapariArawakan84% alike
- Yanesha'Arawakan83% alike
- Maipure-AvaneArawakan82% alike
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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